Dermot Roantree

Dermot Roantree is content editor with Irish Jesuit Communications and he is also the editor of Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. He has a doctorate in Modern History and many years of teaching and of e-learning projects behind him. He is married with two children.

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Partition and the common good

March 19, 2025

DERMOT ROANTREE :: When it comes to contested borders it is essential that the common good be put before 'reasons of state'.

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Steering away from neoliberalism

January 14, 2025

DERMOT ROANTREE :: Ireland has relied far too heavily on a neoliberal model of growth. It's time to chart a better course.

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On poetry and the sacred

October 2, 2024

DERMOT ROANTREE :: There are clear affinities between the disposition of the poet – and indeed the reader of poetry – and the attitude of people at prayer.

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Challenging prison policy

June 24, 2024

DERMOT ROANTREE (STUDIES) :: In criminal justice, the state must not intrude on the life of citizens any more than is needed to achieve a legitimate social purpose.

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Access to the arts as a human right

March 5, 2024

DERMOT ROANTREE :: The arts have a transformative power that makes them much more than a luxury in a democratic society.

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Seeking justice in this world

December 18, 2023

DERMOT ROANTREE :: Seeking justice in the here and now is integral to the Christian commitment to take the Gospel exhortations and promises seriously.

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Thinking ahead to Ireland’s future

March 7, 2023

DERMOT ROANTREE :: What kind of Ireland do we want in 2030? Many concrete issues need attention, but most of all we must ask from where we will draw our...

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On Heaney, home and homecoming

January 26, 2023

DERMOT ROANTREE [STUDIES] :: Seamus Heaney's modernism is defended from those who would see him as provincial, in a 1986 essay in Studies by Richard Kearney.